Microsoft Office

If you stick around the site long enough, you’ll find out that I’m a big fan of automation. It’s nice to be able to wake up in the morning, having my email already open and ready for me, Firefox loaded with all of my “morning stuff” opened and ready for me to read, and my streaming radio show, Lex and Terry, already playing.

So how do I do it? To create the script, open up Notepad (this will be your batch file when you’re all done).

Here’s my morning script:

• start firefox “http://www.netvibes.com?” “http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/” “http://lifehacker.com/” “http://www.foxnews.com/”
• start outlook

What “start” does, is simulate pressing the ‘Start’ button, then selecting ‘Run’ and typing in the command you want.

So, I’m starting Firefox with my morning reads open in tabs, then starting Outlook to have my email ready to go.

That’s it! Save the file with a .bat extension (when you save in notepad, enclose the filename in quotes or it wont work), save it to where your scripts are stored, and add it in the Scheduled Tasks.

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